In all of Suffolk, about a third of LIPA customers were without power. The utility was not making specific predictions about when power would be restored.

LIPA brass are to hold a press conference today at 11:30 a.m. to talk about the company's efforts. At the peak of the outages, the total without power was 523,000. LIPA said it deployed 2,300 restoration workers. The blackout has been the largest in 25 years.